Biology Ph.D. student Joel Johnson and co-author Eric Roth, University of Oklahoma, found that when test snakes were confronted with danger their first reaction was to retreat. Smaller snakes, ...

Every part of a snake is useful. Using snakes as medicine has a long history in China and is recorded in detail in many ancient classics of Chinese traditional medicine, including Compendium of ...

I’m not a skittish person. I have a working knowledge of our local fauna — including snakes — so it takes the fear, but never the surprise out of unexpected encounters with these reptiles. This is ...